London shop to make breast milk ice cream

A specialist ice cream parlour is to serve up breast milk ice cream and says people should think of it as an organic, free-range treat.

The breast milk concoction, called the "Baby Gaga," will be available from Friday at the Icecreamists restaurant in London's Covent Garden. The Icecreamists restaurant is a cult, modern ice cream parlour which serves its customer something a bit different, said to be dangerously tempting.

Icecreamists founder Matt O'Connor was confident his take on the "miracle of motherhood" and priced at a hefty 14 pounds (USD$23) a serving will go down a treat with the paying public.

The breast milk was provided by mothers who answered an advertisement on online mothers' forum Mumsnet.

Victoria Hiley, 35, from London was one of 15 women who donated milk to the restaurant after seeing the advert.

Hiley works with women who have problems breast-feeding their babies. She said she believes that if adults realised how tasty breast milk actually is, then new mothers would be more willing to breast-feed their own newborns.

"What could be more natural than fresh, free-range mother's milk in an ice cream? And for me it's a recession beater too... what's the harm in using my assets for a bit of extra cash," Hiley said in a statement.

"I tried the product for the first time today and it's very nice, it really melts in the mouth."

The Baby Gaga recipe blends breast milk with Madagascan vanilla pods and lemon zest, which is then churned into ice cream.

O'Connor said the Baby Gaga was just one of a dozen radical new flavours at the shop.

"Some people will hear about it and go, 'yuck' but actually it's pure, organic, free-range and totally natural," he said. "I had a Baby Gaga just this morning and I feel great."

The restaurant is also offering breast-milk ice cream cocktails, boasting a mix with whiskey or a different type of spirit on request.

O'Connor mentioned, "We came up with a method of infusing ice cream with breast milk. We wanted to completely reinvent it".

He then furthered, "the Baby Gaga tastes creamy and rich. No-one's done anything interesting with ice cream in the last hundred years," in an interview with a British paper.